Light NMSSM Higgs bosons in SUSY cascade decays at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Stål, Oscar ^a   Weiglein, Georg ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857350251     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)071     Document Type: Article

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